Changing Contours of Yankee Imperialism from Vietnam to Venezuela
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/changing-contours-of-yankee-imperialism-from-vietnam-to-venezuela/

American imperialism destroys peace, stability, solidarity, and economic prosperity — all to serve the interests of a small capitalist elite. Therefore, it is imperative for the working class to unite and resist every form of Yankee imperialism in order to establish genuine world peace and safeguard life on this planet. The realization of human emancipation ultimately depends on the collective struggle of the working class against imperialism and its capitalist system.

Is Aid Finally Reaching Gaza After Two Years of Israeli Genocide? Here’s What We Know
by Quds News Network

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/is-aid-finally-reaching-gaza-after-two-years-of-israeli-genocide-heres-what-we-know/

After two years of genocide, Israel has allowed only a fraction of the humanitarian aid deliveries agreed on as part of the ceasefire, now in its third week, including shelters and food. Aid agencies and Gaza residents describe the aid entering as “limited”, calling on Israel to facilitate the flow of assistance.

41st Anniversary of Forgetting 1984 Sikh Genocide: Killers, Rapists yet to be Identified
by Shamsul Islam

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/41st-anniversary-of-forgetting-1984-sikh-genocide-killers-rapists-yet-to-be-identified/

For almost last 3 decades now, on every anniversary of the 1984 genocide of Sikhs in India, this author has been reminding the Nation how Indian State and judiciary did not bother to identify and punish the perpetrators of this horrendous mass killing of the innocents of the second largest religious minority of our country. On every anniversary the author hoped that now justice would be done, and he would not have to write the painful story once again as a reminder. It has not happened in the year 2024 also; the saga of the criminal betrayal by the Indian Republic has no end and families of the victims continues to cry before a deaf and dumb Indian State. Shockingly, on the 41st anniversary of the genocide of Sikhs, the Indian State even stopped to claim that it was working for getting justice to the victims, like in the past!

PUCL Condemns the attack on V. Suresh, General Secretary PUCL
by People's Union For Civil Liberties

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/pucl-condemns-the-attack-on-v-suresh-general-secretary-pucl/

The PUCL national and the PUCL Tamil Nadu– Puducherry strongly condemn the assault on Dr. V. Suresh, National General Secretary of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and Senior Advocate of the Madras High Court, which took place today at Tirunelveli during a public hearing organised by Arappor Iyakkam (People’s Campaign for Justice) regarding social and environmental issues concerns faced by villagers due to illegal stone quarrying in Tirunelveli district.

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and the Unfinished Revolution of the Indian Mind
by Tata Sivaiah

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/dr-ram-manohar-lohia-and-the-unfinished-revolution-of-the-indian-mind/

If Gandhi was India’s conscience and Nehru its cultivated intellect, Ram Manohar Lohia was its moral insurgent—a man who saw through the sacred hypocrisies of the elite and called them out, not with slogans but with surgical precision. He was the socialist who spat on respectability, the parliamentarian who mocked the Parliament, the thinker who detested think-tanks, and the nationalist who never reduced patriotism to flag worship.

World Cup Win for India’s Women Team Has a Significance That Goes Beyond Cricket
by Bharat Dogra

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/world-cup-win-for-indias-women-team-has-a-significance-that-goes-beyond-cricket/

India’s women’s cricket team made history by winning their maiden ICC Women’s World Cup title, defeating South Africa by 52 runs in a thrilling final at Navi Mumbai. Key performances from Shafali Verma (87 runs) and Deepti Sharma (five wickets) powered India to a landmark victory, inspiring a new generation and marking a major step for gender equality in sports. The team’s journey, resilience, and unity have redefined women’s cricket’s national significance and will leave a lasting impact beyond the boundary.

Indian Women’s World Cup Winning Team: A Mosaic of Unity in Diversity
by T Navin

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/indian-womens-world-cup-winning-team-a-mosaic-of-unity-in-diversity/

In a time when the idea of India’s plurality is under strain, these women have reaffirmed a timeless truth — that the truest form of unity is one that embraces, not erases, diversity. Jemimah Rodrigues, who was once trolled on social media for openly expressing her Christian faith, through her fearless batting under pressure carried India into the semi-finals — a powerful reminder that strength of character and commitment to the nation transcend all boundaries of religion or identity. Her story, like that of her teammates, proves that diversity does not divide India; it defines and strengthens it.

A Stillness Too Deep to Name
by Ashish Singh

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/a-stillness-too-deep-to-name/

There exists, beyond all noise, a silence so complete that it feels like understanding itself. It is the stillness after disappointment, when one no longer seeks answers, when the self stands stripped of pretence and yet unbowed. In that space, emptiness becomes a kind of companion, teaching what no affection ever could. And perhaps that is how one learns to live again – not by forgetting those who turned away, but by remembering, with unflinching clarity, that even their absence could not take everything. Something within survived, something the world could not betray. It endures quietly, unshaken, a stillness too deep to name.

December 1942: The Day Humanity Split the Atom
by Hassan Fattahi

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/december-1942-the-day-humanity-split-the-atom/

On December 2, 1942, a small group of scientists gathered beneath the abandoned football stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Late that afternoon, at precisely 3:25 p.m., George Weil slowly withdrew a cadmium-plated control rod from a crude pile of graphite bricks and uranium cans. In that instant, under the supervision of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, mankind initiated and controlled the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. No sound of explosion echoed, no blinding light illuminated the room. Yet, at that quiet moment, the world irreversibly changed. Humanity had entered the Atomic Age—a new era of power, promise, and peril. The story of this moment is not merely a chapter in the history of science; it is a profound episode in the moral history of civilization. It demonstrates how intellectual curiosity, political urgency, and ethical ambiguity can converge into a single event that transforms the fate of humankind.

We shall strike Them Down: A call to the oppressed to continue struggling and organizing correctly for total liberation
by Okakah Onyango

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/we-shall-strike-them-down-a-call-to-the-oppressed-to-continue-struggling-and-organizing-correctly-for-total-liberation/

Winds of change are blowing again across Africa, and it feels inevitable. Those who for a long time have been subdued, misled, rejected and dispossessed are rising up. The wretched of the earth yearn for a way out of the imperial bondage that has kept them trapped in economic and political squalor.

Zohran Mamdani as Mayor:Affordability and the Dignity of Working People
by Douglas H White

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-as-mayoraffordability-and-the-dignity-of-working-people/

On Tuesday, New York, the largest city in America, has an opportunity to elect Zohran Mamdani, a young man, a democratic socialist, an immigrant (at age seven), a Muslim, a progressive, and someone hated by Donald Trump. And no wonder, since he’s the antithesis of Trump. No wonder he brings fear to the reactionary forces largely represented by the president and his supporters.

Draining Practices: Amazon, Water Consumption and Data Centres
by Dr Binoy Kampmark

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/draining-practices-amazon-water-consumption-and-data-centres/

Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial intelligence, more are set for construction. When one considers that, in 2021 alone, US data centres were found to be consuming approximately 415,000 acre-feet of water, the statistics are bound to be staggering.

COP 30 or COP 525?
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/cop-30-or-cop-525/

COP 30 is the official name of the UN conference on climate change taking place in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21. But indigenous peoples around the world have for years given it another number that better reflects their historical experience of the issues under discussion. The date is that of the arrival of European colonizers in their territories. In the case of Brazil, 1500. The problem of climate change began with colonialism and capitalism and continues to this day. It will not be solved as long as colonialism and capitalism dominate our lives. The ecological crisis is the other side of the social and political crisis.

Israel’s Genocide Costs Gaza Over 3 Million Years of Life: Lancet Study
by Quds News Network

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/israels-genocide-costs-gaza-over-3-million-years-of-life-lancet-study/

Israel’s genocide has cost more than three million years of human life in Gaza since it began in October 2023, according to a new study published in The Lancet. According to the study, published on Friday, as of July 31, 2025, a total of 3,082,363 life-years lost in Gaza. The study analysed data on 60,199 Palestinians killed between October 7, 2023 and July 31, 2025, citing data by the Palestinian Health Ministry on July 31. Researchers calculated each death resulted in an average of 51 years of life lost.

Cherish This Chak De Moment of Indian Cricket
by Bhavuk

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/cherish-this-chak-de-moment-of-indian-cricket/

It not only augurs well for Indian cricket and endorsement of this great game but does wonders for the emancipation of women. It opens ajar opportunities for them to go out and express themselves and break the shackles of patriarchy. It does what former Prime Minister of India, Late. Indira Gandhi expected from the 1983 World Cup finals, i.e. to unite the entire nation over a shared sense of triumph. This becomes even more special coming from the Women’s team which has shut down many critics and made many admirers.

From Welfare to Warfare: The Moral Bankruptcy of Modern Democracies
by Dr Md Afroz

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/from-welfare-to-warfare-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-modern-democracies/

Global military expenditure increased to over $2.72 trillion in 2024, marking a historic high and the most significant annual rise in decades. Military expenditures have increased for 10 successive years, with the global “military burden” (the defence budgets share in GDP) reaching approximately 2.5% in 2024. This increase is widespread, with Europe and the West Asia experiencing particularly significant rises in 2024, driven not only by great-power competition but also by a multitude of smaller nations augmenting defence expenditures in reaction to instability.

Playwright Elkunchwar’s insensitivity to human suffering
by Vidyadhar Date

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/playwright-elkunchwars-insensitivity-to-human-suffering/

This is pathetic and unbelievable coming from Mahesh Elkunchwar, a leading playwright. He says he felt completely cold, dry , unaffected after his visit to the Aushwitz concentration camp site , the holocaust museum ,some years ago. He said this in his interview at the inaugural of the daily Loksatta lit festival in Mumbai two days ago.. I was shocked, how can a writer be so insensitive ? He said this with a straight face which made his insensitivity so stark.

A Few Cannot Be Allowed to Bully the World
by Dr Arun Mitra

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/a-few-cannot-be-allowed-to-bully-the-world/

On October 29, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that ‘Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War [the Pentagon] to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. This statement is not only disturbing but also extremely dangerous’. The last explosive nuclear weapon test carried out by the United States was back in 1992. Other than North Korea, no country has tested nuclear weapons since the late 1990s.

Turning the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism into a Bridge for India EU Climate Cooperation
by Abhishek Roy Choudhury and Raghuvir Raghav Das

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/turning-the-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism-into-a-bridge-for-india-eu-climate-cooperation/

For India and Europe, partnership on climate resilience and clean industry should no longer be buzzwords or mere development goals; they can be turned into conditions for continued shared prosperity on a warming planet. If New Delhi and Brussels can lock in the three priorities above: MSME-led upgrades, outcomes-based funding that pays for verified results, and a grid-plus-storage push that makes renewables reliable; the partnership will move from talk to productive transition. CBAM then becomes a bridge, not a barrier. When technology and financial transfer accelerate, climate gains follow – and they are measurable. In a warming world, trust will be judged by what we build, not what we promise. India and Europe have the tools. And now we need the deal.

Reinforcing and Resisting Power: Information Asymmetries in Algorithmic Management of Work
by Bhumika Pant

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/reinforcing-and-resisting-power-information-asymmetries-in-algorithmic-management-of-work/

The growing integration of data and algorithmic technologies into workplaces has transformed how labour is organized, monitored, and evaluated, a process now widely referred to as algorithmic management (AM). While these systems promise efficiency, objectivity, and optimization, they also embed new forms of managerial control that reconfigure power relations between employers and workers. This article examines how the data-driven nature of AM intensifies information asymmetries, allowing employers to centralize knowledge, decision-making, and surveillance capacities while leaving workers with minimal access to or understanding of how workplace decisions are made. Such asymmetries not only heighten precarity and psychosocial risks but also undermine fundamental labour rights, including occupational safety, collective bargaining, and workplace fairness.

Every Wave Has a Memory: Women, Waters and the Promise of November 5
by Jesu Rethinam and Vijayan MJ

https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/every-wave-has-a-memory-women-waters-and-the-promise-of-november-5/

When the women of the sea rise, the tides will rise with them to recognise and honour the daughters of the oceans. On November 5 this year, fisherwomen across India and the world will celebrate the first International Fisher Women’s Day (IFWD) — a day not born in the corridors of institutions, but on the sands of Valiyathura, Kerala, amid the voices of working women who mend, dry, sell, and defend fish and life itself.